Weight-Loss Drugs Offer Unexpected Health Gains

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United States: A groundbreaking new study has revealed surprising findings about weight-loss drugs, showing they can significantly improve heart health, reduce infections, and even lower the risk of dementia.

The research, which already analyzed data from nearly two million people, and also paints a promising picture of these drugs’ potential benefits. But also, there’s a kind of catch: experts caution that they come with their own set of risks, including joint pain and potential pancreatic inflammation. Here’s what you need to know about this eye-opening study.

Obesity which is mainly on the rise and so too are weight loss drugs and it seems that science which is only just beginning to unravel how these materials interact with the body.

” This is new territory,” said lead researcher Dr. Ziyad al-Aly, clinical epidemiologist at Washington University.

First, they had been well established to treat type 2 diabetes. Then weight loss was observed as a quite noticeable side-effect – and suddenly Ozempic and Wegovy became widely popular.

As reported by the BBC, this research utilised records of veterans with type 2 diabetes in the United States, some of whom were administered Ozempic or Wegovy and other more ordinary medication to assess its impact on 175 other diseases.

In this case, it seemed evident there was a gain in the heart as the new weight-loss drugs contained fewer indications of heart attacks, stroke, heart failure and high blood pressure.

It also reduced their risk of substance use, including alcohol, opioids, and cannabis, as well as schizophrenia and sepsis, suicidal thoughts, and seizures.

For all the participants to have taken the drugs for an average of only 3.5 years due to how new the drugs are, this study still recorded a 12%freedom from Alzheimer’s disease.

It also identified lower incidences of liver cancer, muscle pain, chronic kidney disease, bacterial infections and fever.

On the other side, people’s health became critical especially the alimentary canal since many suffered from various digestive problems. Having flu like symptoms, stomachaches, inflammation in stomach, Diverticulitis, a condition in which small pouches formed in the intestines can be painful and Hemorrhoids were more among those patients who took Ozempic or Wegovy.

‘Definitely eye-opening’

In the published study in Nature Medicine, the same data presented also revealed that low blood pressure, including fainting, headaches and disturbed sleep, kidney stones, inflammation in the kidneys and a variety of bone or joint pains, including arthritis, began to occur more often.

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